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Gun background checks set record on Black Friday
The FBI on Friday received a record number of requests for gun background checks, USA Today reported.
The number of requests, 203,086, breaks previous records…
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State lawmaker among protesters arrested on Black Friday
Missouri state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr. (D) was among several protesters arrested at a suburban St. Louis mall on Black Friday.
The protests, which were…
READ MORE Black Friday gives gun sales a big bounce: FBI
Vendors across the country saw a huge spike in sales on Black Friday, including gun sales, the FBI said.
FBI officials are concerned over the background checks yet to be completed for the sales. There are over 144,000 background checks that need to be processed after the Friday sales, but a lot of them aren’t completed and so won’t be…
READ MOREBang for the buck: Gun deals galore on Black Friday
Nothing like chiming in the Christmas season with a new gun. That’s the message advertisers are blasting out, with deals that promise purchasers savings in the double-digit range.
Post-Thanksgiving gun buys have become a holiday tradition for America, The Huffington Post reported. In the past two years, the FBI has been besieged by applications for gun purchases made on Black…
READ MOREWeb shopping’s new holiday twist: Taxes
By MICHELLE QUINN | Politico
SAN FRANCISCO — Some Amazon.com shoppers are in for a rude awakening as they click to check out with holiday purchases on Black Friday — they’ll have to pay the tax man.
For the first time since the dawn of e-commerce, residents in California, Texas and Pennsylvania will be automatically charged state sales tax at…
READ MORECall volume shuts down FBI’s firearm background checks, stops Maine sales on Black Friday
By Nok-Noi Ricker, Bangor Daily News
BREWER, Maine — Sometime early on Black Friday, the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, went down and stopped all gun sales, Bangor-area gun dealers said.
High call volumes caused “intermittent outages†in the system, an FBI spokesman confirmed Friday afternoon.
“It means we can’t sell no damn guns,†Rick Lozier,…
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